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I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.

Jonathan Ive

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Jonathan Ive
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 27
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What we don't include is as important as what we do include.
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The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products.
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True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.
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Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
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There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
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Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.
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What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.
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There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
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I think it’s a wonderful view that care was important – but I think you can make a one-off and not care and you can make a million of something and care. Whether you really care or not is not driven by how many of the products you’re going to make.
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The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability
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With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.
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I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
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If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.
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I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.
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A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.
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If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.
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It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.
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There's no other product that changes function like the computer.
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